419 quotes found
“In politics and passion, perception is reality.”
“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”
“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
“I'll always choose you." Yes that was the word. "Every single lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever.”
“I’ll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. Iwill not be bound by anything but my love for you.”
“Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another p...”
“Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?”
“You have a dress with a décolletage to emphasise your breasts. I suppose the cleavage is the proper focus but what I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar...”
“What is life without this? which was why, in the end, it was I, and not her, who blurted out, not once, but many, many times, You'll kill me if you stop, you'll kill me if you stop, because it was ...”
“She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, e...”
“...she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.”
“I’m his puppet and he is my invisible master, holding my strings from miles away.”
“down down↓ bottomRemove this quote from your collection“I thought I saw a memory." The nun looks at her funny as the bus turns into a position she can no longer see Elathan."What do you mean dear?"...”
“She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive.”
“You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.”
“One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.”
“The mental agony I have suffered, during the last two days, wrings from me the avowal to you of a passion which, as you well know, is not one of yesterday, nor one I have lightly formed. On Rose, s...”
“There’s a pressure at all hours of the day only a poem can assuage.”
“Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.”
“and this passion, like bad kerosene, barely burns.”
